President William Ruto has appointed Bishop David Adang Oginde as Chairperson of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission.
Bishop Oginde, who has a net worth of KES 170 million, was nominated by the President to the three-member EACC to replace Archbishop Eliud Wabukala, who served a successful six-year non-renewable term.
The nomination followed a competitive recruitment process by the Public Service Commission.
Fourteen candidates had expressed interest in the position.
According to the EACC Act, the chairperson and members of the EACC serve a six-year non-renewable term.
During his tenure, retired Archbishop Wabukala led the commission in recovering billions of shillings looted from public coffers and public property that had been grabbed by individuals.
During Oginde’s vetting, some JLAC members raised concerns about his previous writings and utterances, some of which are likely to be used as fodder when the House debates the committee’s report.
Bishop Oginde, a columnist in one of the local dailies, once wrote that Kenya was on the verge of civil war unless the Muslim community did something to stop the country’s numerous terror attacks.
Members of the committee also chastised him for claiming that “Kenya is a corrupt country,” citing Rwanda as an example of a country that is “zero tolerant of corruption.”
Oginde is also the immediate former Chancellor of Pan Africa Christian (PAC) University.
He held the presiding bishop post for 10 years at CITAM between 2010 and 2020, and also previously taught at Daystar University.
